Re: Crashing Win9x

[alun () TEXIS COM (Alun Jones)]

At 08:44 AM 3/23/2000 , you wrote:
> (of the same order of trickery as creating
> a file on Unix with a leading '-' character).
>
> This is really not that difficult. You just need to use the absolute
> path to delete the file.

That was my point - it's annoying, and causes mild headaches for anyone not
familiar with how the operating system - or app - parses the command
line.  For instance, if you want to delete a file called "CON", you just
say "DEL ?ON".

It's not rocket science, but it's sufficiently beyond most users that any
help-desk fields numerous calls about it.

Alun.
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